Analysing the analysts

Analysing the analysts

1 December 2009 Pete Swabey

At first glance, the news that IT analysis giant Gartner is to acquire one of the few remaining independent analyst companies of any size – AMR Research – might be cause for alarm.

Many IT buyers – and vendors, too – already lament the dominant influence of certain analyst companies over the industry zeitgeist, and news such as this solidifies an impression that the number of strong, informed opinions on IT trends is dwindling.

This impression might also have been given by the recent consolidation of two of the UK’s big names in analysis, Ovum and Butler... read more...

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